![]() ![]() Although there was no open scandal after his turning to crime, he was obliged to retire from the army and return to London. Formerly of the 1st Bangalore Pioneers (Madras), he served in the Jowaki Expedition of 1877–1878 and in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, seeing action at the Battle of Char Asiab, 6 October 1879 (for which he was mentioned in despatches) the Battle of Sherpur, 23 December 1879 and at Kabul.Ī devoted sportsman and highly skilled shot, he was author of the books Heavy Game of the Western Himalayas in 1881 and Three Months in the Jungle in 1884, and reportedly once "crawled down a drain after a wounded man-eating tiger". ![]() He was educated at Eton College and the University of Oxford before embarking upon a military career. According to these data, Moran was born in London in 1840, the son of Sir Augustus Moran, CB, sometime Minister to Persia. In " The Adventure of the Empty House", Sherlock Holmes looks up for biographical information about Sebastian Moran in his index of criminal biographies. Holmes once described him as "the second most dangerous man in London", the most dangerous being Professor Moriarty, Moran's employer. An enemy of Sherlock Holmes, he first appears in the 1903 short story " The Adventure of the Empty House". ![]() ![]() Colonel Moran is arrested in "The Adventure of the Empty House".Ĭolonel Sebastian Moran is a fictional character in the stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. ![]()
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